[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[David Lennick]

On 10/28/2013 6:14 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 28/10/13 20:04, muhrp at suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
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>>
>>
>> 	The 2001 book "The Complete War of the
>> Worlds: Mars' Invasion from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles" includes
>> the full audio on CD along with next day&  40-years-later
>>    interviews with Welles and a subsequent meeting between H.G.&
>> Orson as well as excerpts from the 1968 recreation by
>> Buffalo's WKBW.  Sound is excellent.  The book contains the
>> full text and original illustrations of the Wells book as well as
>> the Koch radio play along with the story of the broadcast and
>> "panic", fully illustrated with period
>> news photos.  Highly recommended!
>>
>>
>> 	Peter
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>>
> ==============
> A contributor to the BBC programme suggested that the people who may
> have panicked may have tuned in late. He suggested that many were
> listening to Ed Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on another network, and when
> Dorothy Lamour started singing a boring song (which they played), they
> started channel hopping, and this would have tuned in just as the
> "panic" announcement came on.
>
>        Julian Vein

The legend has always been that people switched stations when Nelson Eddy sang, 
but that one doesn't hold up for various reasons including Eddy's immense 
popularity at the time.

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